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Post by ThirdMan on Mar 8, 2018 8:51:21 GMT -8
I kind of figured as much, and I'm no great fan of David E. Kelley's work in general, but it's only seven episodes, so I'll indulge it.
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Post by Zarnium on Mar 9, 2018 9:32:15 GMT -8
Netflix is rebooting Lost in Space. Given that I watched the original show as a kid, I'm looking forward to checking it out. I doubt it'll be very similar though, and it probably shouldn't be, given that the original is more of a so-bad-it's-good kind of thing.
Interestingly, the new Robot appears to be of alien origin rather being shipped out with the Robinsons on Earth, and Dr. Smith is a woman.
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Post by Jeremy on Mar 9, 2018 11:49:05 GMT -8
The prevailing philosophy around the Lost in Space reboot seems to be "No place to go but up," but... well, the film adaptation kinda disproved that. Hopefully, the new show turns out better.
Right now, the new show I'm most looking forward to is Rise, which premieres next week. I know I should probably curb my expectations, but the idea of another high school drama from Jason Katims (starring Moana!) is too tempting to pass up.
UPDATE: I just read a couple of Rise reviews, and am now curbing my expectations.
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Post by ThirdMan on Mar 9, 2018 21:40:45 GMT -8
Alexander SkarsgÄrd plays such a tiresome, cliiched archetype in Big Little Lies. You know exactly what he's all about from his first scene, and there's never any deepening or deviation from that position for the rest of the season.
Fortunately, the emphasis is on the women, and as Scott said, the lead actresses do good work. That said, I don't really see any reason for this to extend beyond one season.
I guess the primary theme is Nature vs. Nurture, and that's kind of interesting. It's certainly got an arty editing style.
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Post by Jeremy on Mar 11, 2018 14:06:27 GMT -8
Okay, I was laughing wayyy too much at last night's SNL. Most of the sketches were dumb, but danged if some of them didn't crack me up. Maybe I'm just overtired from all the Daylight Savings.
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Post by Quiara on Mar 11, 2018 14:50:30 GMT -8
Okay, I was laughing wayyy too much at last night's SNL. Most of the sketches were dumb, but danged if some of them didn't crack me up. Maybe I'm just overtired from all the Daylight Savings. You never did make it as a wise man, did you?
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Post by Jeremy on Mar 11, 2018 16:20:46 GMT -8
See, I'm not even a Nickelback fan, and yet that sketch was great. Ditto the Shrek debate and the This Is US commercial. There was just an off-the-wall feel to the whole episode that's been lacking from much of this season. And Sterling K. Brown fit right in with the cast.
My one real issue was with the opening sketch, which couldn't really decide if it was more interested in mocking the Trump administration or The Bachelor. Just a weird pseudo-parody that went on too long.
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Post by ThirdMan on Mar 11, 2018 16:21:22 GMT -8
Sterling K. Brown certainly committed to the melodrama of it all. That said, I thought it was a pretty average episode.
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Post by Jeremy on Mar 14, 2018 6:37:28 GMT -8
I know I probably should have seen it coming, but the premiere of Rise is... not great. Or at least, it was basically okay, and then in the last ten minutes, it pretty much disappeared up its own hindquarters.
The show is clearly setting up a lot of ground - we've got at least five or six teenage leads, each of whom gets the basic snippets of a personality/intersectional identity, but none of whom feel all that promising thus far. The best of the young characters in the premiere is Moana, who's played by Moana (an actress best known for playing Moana in Moana. I'll stop now).
The biggest problem is the drama teacher, who is, unfortunately, the show's lead character. As written and played (by a badly miscast Josh Radnor), Lou Mazza is pretentious, overly earnest, and pretty bland. He feels kind of like a generic Aaron Sorkin protagonist, except without the humor or appeal that makes Sorkin characters entertaining.
Friday Night Lights is the best network drama of the past 15 years, so I'm going to give this spiritual followup a pretty long leash. (Especially since my interest of musical theater is slightly more stimulated than my interest in football.) But the show's got an uphill battle ahead of it.
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Post by Jeremy on Mar 18, 2018 7:22:45 GMT -8
Agh. SNL was back to its usual mediocre self last night. Lots of unfunny sketches. Lots of exaggerated performances. Bill Hader can be amusing, but he has an irritating habit of cranking things up way past eleven, and the writers put way too much stock in his impressions last night (as I kind of anticipated they would - this seems to be a pattern whenever old SNL alums return to host).
The Jurassic Park sketch was pretty funny, though.
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Post by ThirdMan on Mar 18, 2018 14:29:21 GMT -8
Nah, Stefon alone puts it over last week.
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Post by Jeremy on Mar 18, 2018 16:40:21 GMT -8
The Stefon sequence went on waaay too long. I sort of figured it would, given that the audience pretty much lost their collective minds the moment Stefon showed up next to Colin. Guess nostalgia still has a hold.
In fairness, I did like McKinnon's take on Betsy DeVos - it was probably the most I've laughed during a Weekend Update segment all season.
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Post by ThirdMan on Mar 18, 2018 18:28:25 GMT -8
Stefon segments can NEVER -- I repeat NEVER -- go on too long. Bite your tongue! (I should note that Hader is one of my all-time-favourite SNL cast members. He can pretty much do no wrong, from where I'm standing. Even his broadest caricatures feel lived in.)
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Post by Jeremy on Mar 18, 2018 19:29:32 GMT -8
I think Hader can be funny in small doses, but he can get out-of-control real easily. A whole episode dedicated to his impressionistic shtick is really stretching things. The show obviously wants to take some advantage now that they've got him back on set, but still.
I dunno. Maybe Barry will be a good show (it's getting some strong reviews), but it's not particularly high on my prepping-to-watch-list.
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Post by Jeremy on Mar 19, 2018 5:08:09 GMT -8
Okay, Bill Hader was on last night's Simpsons, voicing a Banacek parody. He was really good - I would never have recognized his voice. Nicely done, Bill.
(As an aside, how the heck did it take 29 years for The Simpsons to do a Banacek parody?)
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